he would have been able to fall in love
with Christina Ricci
in Buffalo 66
and he would have fallen in love with her
and made a box
or dozens of boxes for her
perhaps collaging images
someone had printed for him
off the internet
if he had only lived this long
and he would have ridden the bus
and thought he had seen her
on every street corner
talking on every cell phone
to someone he could only hope
was not Vincent Gallo
but better yet
the ghost of Cary Grant
whose character in North by Northwest
Vincent Gallo’s character
in Arizona Dream imitates
running away from an airplane
if only Joseph Cornell had lived this long
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